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"So What's It Like Being Colorblind?"

Colorblind people and their family members talk about what it's like to see things differently than most people.

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Melinda Beck

Nov. 6, 2012 11:48 a.m. ET

Some 32 million Americans have some degree of colorblindness. Here's what some of them--and their family members--have to say about seeing things differently than most people:

Janise Rand of Birch Bay, Wash., first suspected her son, Joe, was colorblind when, at age 5, he told her: "I'll meet you over by those gray trees." Her father was colorblind as well and managed to work as a house painter by reading paint-can...